The slogan of the organizers is clear: "Without justice, no Republic".

Several "gatherings of anger" are scheduled for Sunday in Paris and other cities in France, at the call of citizen collectives and representatives of the Jewish community to challenge the lack of trial after the murder of Sarah Halimi.

The main gathering will take place from 2 pm on Place du Trocadéro in Paris, at the initiative of the “Agissons pour Sarah Halimi” collective.

This mobilization responds to the confirmation, on April 14, by the Court of Cassation, of the criminal irresponsibility of the murderer of the Jewish sexagenarian killed in 2017 in Paris, hospitalized in psychiatry since this crime.

A "delirious puff"

The highest court of the judiciary confirmed the anti-Semitic nature of the crime, but confirmed the impossibility of trying the murderer, given the abolition of his discernment during the facts.

According to the seven psychiatric experts who examined him, Kobili Traore, a heavy cannabis user, was in the throes of a "delirious puff" when he killed his 65-year-old neighbor, Lucie Attal, also known as Sarah Halimi.

The impossibility of a trial aroused a very strong misunderstanding within a part of the French Jewish community.

It has also sparked a heated debate on the criminal liability of people with psychiatric disorders on the background of drug use.

President Emmanuel Macron took part in the debate calling for "a change in the law".

Gatherings in Bordeaux, Marseille, Lyon, Strasbourg and Nice

"It is a national emotion, the principle laid down by this judgment is incomprehensible (...) we expect a very strong mobilization, in the name of justice, law, intelligence, the fight against anti-Semitism", the chief rabbi of France Haïm Korsia declared ahead of the demonstration.

Other gatherings are planned for Sunday in Bordeaux, Marseille, Lyon, Strasbourg and Nice.

Abroad, calls to demonstrate in front of French embassies and consulates were also relayed on social networks.

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Emmanuel Macron accused of surfing the emotion aroused by the anti-Semitic murder of Sarah Halimi

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